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Comment Re:Yeah right (Score 1) 24

The race is already underway, and the EU is already way behind.

You can argue that AI is going to the "bottom" (whatever that means) and it doesn't matter, but that seems rather foolish. People betting trillions of their own money obviously see things differently. LLMs are improving dramatically, and there's way more to AI than just LLMs.

By forfeiting yet another technology, the EU will sit and watch as others get there first.

Comment Re: What about not eating it daily? (Score 0, Insightful) 183

And most of them voted Trump and subsequently voted to not have any healthcare

Ya know.. sometimes a person is so stupid that it's actually hilarious. You actually think this.. You think we don't want healthcare.... No fucktard, we don't want public healthcare. We're tired of watching the system grow ever more fragile and ever more expensive because of constant meddling by the government. I want to pay for my healthcare.. I don't want to pay for yours. And yes, we still want oversight and regulation. We're not anarchists.

all because of their hatred of the immigrants who pick their food becaue they don't want to work the minimum wage jobs that are too hard for their soft little hands.

That's rich... most folks in the trades (construction, electrical, plumbing, etc) are conservative. We all work for our money. We're not so thrilled about handing it over to people who don't work. I've dug more ditches in the hot sun than I like to think about. I'd work your ass under the table any day of the week. I'm guessing you're about as soft as a woman.

We still need people to harvest food.

But you sure as fuck don't want to pay someone to do it. No, you prefer the illegal workers.. The ones being paid an illegally low wage.... That's the crux of it.. They're illegal. They're working under the table.. Being paid in cash. You don't hire an illegal with the intention of paying them at least the minimum wage. If you were going to do that, you'd just hire legal people and not risk being fined or imprisoned for violations of labor laws.

You're right.. Most Americans don't want to do those jobs. They're back-breaking and they don't pay much. You know who would do those jobs? Recent immigrants to the United States who might really need a fucking job to help them get up and running. You know, the same kind of people who are getting fucked by the system because of liberals like you. The legal migrants can't get those jobs, working in the fields, because to hire them. the company would have to pay them a legal wage... They're legal immigrants.. They're in the system. All those labor laws apply to them and anyone hiring them is going to have to pay them a legal wage. Minimum sure, but still legal. More then they're paying the border hoppers.

Every time one of you retard liberals start talking about illegals and crops, you cunts immediately try to pull the "our food is gonna be more expensive" card like it's going to make your case for your. Yeah, fuck-face. If food has to be more expensive, so the poor motherfucker picking it can have a "living wage", then I guess our food needs to be more expensive. Aren't you the same fucks (liberals) that have been crowing about how "every job needs to be paid a living wage. If you can't pay a living wage then you don't need to have employees"? Yeah, you are. I've heard that tired fucking trop time after time on Slashdot. Every job needs to pay a living wage... blah blah blah. That's what you all profess to believe. But, like everything else y'all "believe", it's just virtue-signaling. Y'all just love to contradict yourselves in every facet of your twisted ideology. You don't want every job to pay well.. You want illegals working the fields for slave wages so your tomatoes are cheap. Else you wouldn't be bitching about food being more expensive. You'd be embracing it. Can't have cheap tomatoes and pay someone a living wage, can you? Also, you retard, we have work visas... Someone can apply for a seasonal visa, come to the US for harvest season, earn a legal wage, and then go back home. That's been a thing for just about forever. They hand out hundreds of thousands of harvest-time visas every year.

Maybe make all the republican conservatives going on killing spreas work the fields. At the rate they are going there should be plenty.

Weird rant.. Gives me Pol Pot vibes.... Seek help.

Comment Re:What about not eating it daily? (Score 0) 183

There's people that are convinced they need to eat meat three times a day at every meal.

Oh let me guess. You are opposed to this for some reason... Let me guess, you're one of those uneducated smooth-brains that doesn't have the education to know that a meat heavy diet isn't some new fad.. It's been the only diet of the Eskimo and Inuit people for at least the last ten to fifteen thousand years. Beyond the occasional seaweed, they didn't have many (or any) plants in the majority of their meals.

Point is... what the fuck is up with you people? Now you have opinions on people's meals? The problem here is processed meat. Not fresh meat.

Comment Re:I expect Google to figure this out. (Score -1) 32

I'm not going to claim solar is cheap as I see little evidence of that being the case.

Probably depends on your particular market. My local power company is so goddamn expensive that the average ROI on a grid-connected rooftop solar system is roughly 3 years now. Expensive power in an area where the sun is absolutely abundant (SoCal).. I switched the bulk of my company's infrastructure over to solar and LiFePO4 years ago. Today our average monthly power bill is zero.

I certainly benefited from the subsidies. And it was very cheap. I bought used panels from a company that had limited square footage for solar. When they needed to generate more power they had to get more efficient panels. I got mine for ten cents on the dollar. 420w panels that were being discarded for 550w panels.. The subsidies were winding down, so there was a mad rush for upgrades and the market was flooded with cheap used panels. The only real cost was the batteries.. But that was off-set by the 90% discount on the panels.

Comment Re:You know AI is going to hit (Score 0) 26

The print industry like a brick now that I think about it. As it rips through white collar jobs you're going to see a hell of a lot less printing. .

What in the actual fuck are you smoking? How in the hell is AI going to reduce the printing market?

The global inkjet printers market size was estimated at USD 42,667.0 million in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 60,353.6 million by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 6.0% from 2025 to 2030

Comment Re: Older students (Score -1) 36

Let me guess: you're all for space exploration and colonizing the galaxy, but our lifespan is natural and can't be tampered with.

Nope. I just think that it's going to be a hell of a lot harder than some might think and might not be a great idea to extend it too far.

You think us conservatives are bad now? Wait until 99% of the population is viewing 200 years ago through rose-colored glasses...

Comment Re:What are the other 95% studying (Score 1) 78

There is generally more money in law, medicine, etc. than in the engineering or science fields.

Law and medicine are advanced degrees.

Engineering is not.

Engineering is the most lucrative bachelor's degree.

Those who continue to law school, medical school, or an MBA are most successful when their undergrad degree was engineering.

Comment Re:Imagine explaining solar (Score 1) 127

They last for 10-15 years before being replace

Actually, they last for 30 years at 80% capacity or better.

Why aren't they installed on every surface?

At least in America, it is illegal to install cost-effective solar panels.

Biden and Trump both agreed on high tariffs on solar, and American manufacturers have no incentive to be more efficient.

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